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What do you get when you mix much-loved director J.J. Abrams with an online magician's shop?

Magic, of course.

Abrams teamed up with theory11 (whose manifesto is "to advance the art of magic") for the release of the Mystery Box on their Shopify store.

The product is exactly that: A mystery box. It comes with an alpha-numeric combination lock – with no key – and something unknown inside. Whether or not you choose to open the box is up to you.

When Abrams was a young boy, he was given a Mystery Box by his grandfather. Some 30 years later, that box remains unopened and sits above Abrams's desk. His love of mystery has been present in his creative projects ever since, including Lost, Cloverfield and Super 8.

The Mystery Box comes with a letter from Abrams adorned with a black wax seal, explaining that people don't have to open the box.

"I realize it's unusual to sell an object for $150 when you don't know what's inside of it," Bayme said. "But that's the point. You have to trust us that it's something really wonderful – or never open it and always wonder."

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